Key Features for Organizational Commitment Flashcards

Organizational commitment is the psychological attachment of an individual to the organization. The central concept behind this was to build a fundamental responsibility of the employee to the organization. These flashcards include critical features for organizational commitment and its types. Read these flashcards and test your knowledge for it.

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Organizational Commitment
Desire on a the part of an employee to remain a member of the organization
Withdrawal behavior
A set of actions that employees perform to avoid the work situation, culminate in quitting the organization
Affective commitment
A desire to remind a member due to an emotional attachment to an organization.
"Want"
Continuance commitment
Desire to remain a member of an organization because of an awareness of the cost associated with leaving it
"need"
Normative commitment
Desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of obligation
"ought"
Focus of commitment
Various people, places, and things that can inspire a desire to remain a member of an organization
Erosion model
employees with fewer bonds will be most likely to quit the organization
Social influence model
Employees who have direct linages with leavers will themselves become more likely to leave
Embeddedness
Employees links to their organization and community, what they would have to sacrifice for a job change
Exit
Active, destructive response by which an individual either ends or restricts organizational memberships
Voice
Active, constructive response in which individuals attempt to improve the situation
Loyalty
Passive, constructive response the maintains public support for the situation, while the individual privately hopes for improvement
Neglect
Passive, destructive response in which interest and effort in the job declines
Star employee
high commitment and high performance
Citizen employee
High commitment and low task performance